Utility-aware Payment Channel Network Rebalance
Summary: Introduce Utility-Aware Rebalance (UAR) for payment-channel networks: transaction utility = channel weight × amount / receiver balance, with per-channel budget and user flow-conservation constraints. Prove UAR NP-hard and inapproximable; propose Circuit Greedy and UAR_DC heuristics achieving ≥3.16× utility over prior work. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Wangze Ni (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 2. Pengze Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. Peng Cheng (East China Normal University)
- 4. Chen Jason Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- 5. Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 6. Xuemin Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ni_vldb24,
title = {{Utility-aware Payment Channel Network Rebalance}},
author = {Ni, Wangze and Chen, Pengze and Cheng, Peng and Zhang, Chen Jason and Chen, Lei and Lin, Xuemin},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {2},
pages = {184--196},
doi = {10.14778/3626292.3626301},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3626292.3626301},
year = {2024}
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